The Inner Net of Exile

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville vantage, the net and snare are not tools of fate but images held in consciousness. The Babylon to which he is carried represents a state of mind—an exile in which awareness identifies with lack, limitation, or distance from the I AM. The line 'yet shall he not see it' signals that the old identity cannot perceive or enter the new form of reality you are already mastering in your imagination. In truth, you are not at the mercy of external geography; you are the I AM, and every scene of exile exists only as a belief until you revise it by assuming a higher state. When you dwell in the end you desire—being whole, free, and with sight turned inward—you dissolve the snare by feeling the reality of that state now. Your net loosens as awareness widens, and the land of your return appears as the invisible blueprint of your present experience. The verse invites you to awaken to the truth that the observer behind the scene is not the captive but the power to re-script it.